Ganzhou, Yu Gutai.

Fei Ruhe moved a chair and sat there, and used a clairvoyant mirror to observe the city when he had nothing to do, he liked this newly seized little thing very much.

The eight-mirror platform at the head of the city can observe the river surface everywhere. Yu Gutai on the mountain, you can observe the entire Ganzhou City.

Liu Anfeng took a few officials and came to the stage to greet him: "I've seen Zhao Bingyuan!" ”

"Yo, Lao Liu is here," Fei Ruhe put down the clairvoyant mirror and greeted him warmly, "The head town actually asked you to be the prefect of Ganzhou?" ”

Liu Anfeng arched his hand and said: "Thanks to the cultivation of the town. ”

Liu Anfeng was the magistrate of Luling County before, and his position in Zhao Han's territory was somewhat similar to Jing Zhaoyin. The promotion of this position is either to be released to serve as the prefect or directly promoted to the general military office.

Liu Anfeng is barely a veteran, only one poor and poor, and he served during the Yongyang Town period.

When it comes to the position of magistrate, it is necessary to use a scholar. It is not necessary to be a scholar with a meritorious reputation, but to be proficient in literature and ink and arithmetic, and it is okay if a house slave or an actor has read a book.

There is a house slave named Xiao Gui, who has been promoted to Longquan County.

Fei Ruhe asked: "What kind of territory are you going to fight this time?" ”

"In addition to Ganzhou City, the four counties of Nankang, Shangyou, Yudu, and Xingguo must be taken," Liu Anfeng conveyed the order of the General Military Mansion, "Nankang is the south gate of Ganzhou Mansion, Shangyou is the west gate of Ganzhou Mansion, and Yudu is the east gate of Ganzhou Mansion. As for Xingguo, after taking this county, several counties in the south can be connected. ”

Fei Ruhe said: "Coupled with the Gan County of Ganzhou City, the land of five counties has soared, are there so many officials?" ”

"Yes," Liu Anfeng explained, "the yamen of all prefectures, counties, and towns have sent some adjutant officials and officials to come over, and the vacant positions have their own officials to fill them." ”

"That's okay," Fei Ruhe asked again, "Zou Weilian's family, how many did you bring?" ”

Liu Anfeng said: "His mother is old and inconvenient to travel far, so she only brought her eldest son Zou Liangyi. Zou Liangyi has taken refuge in us, and this time he came to Ganzhou and can be a clerk in Ganxian County. ”

Fei Ruhe had a headache and said: "Then hurry up and let him go to persuade him to surrender, this Ganzhou City is really not easy to fight." ”

Zou Liangyi was only seventeen years old, and before he was taken captive, he was studying hard to take the exam. He was thrown to Bailuzhou Academy, where he studied for more than half a year, and he already recognized the concept of Datong in his heart, but he was a little reluctant to give up his own property.

But no matter how reluctant he is, now he can only give up, his whole family has been captured by the thieves.

And when he left home, his grandmother also gave away his own land, and Zou Liangyi has now been reduced to a "landless class".

Anyway, there is no land at home, why don't you follow Mr. Zhao?

"I'm the son of Governor Zou, let me go up!" Zou Liangyi stood under the city and shouted.

The officers and soldiers defending the city immediately hung him into the city.

In fact, these Fujian soldiers also want to surrender, but they have not yet negotiated the conditions. In order to surrender smoothly, they didn't even loot the city, just to leave a good impression on Zhao Han's side.

At this moment, Zou Weilian is playing chess with Liu Huan, the prefect of Ganzhou.

They all knew that Ganzhou would be lost, and they did not immediately surrender the city, purely because all the city gates were in the hands of Fujian soldiers.

Zou Weilian and Liu Huan were responsible for negotiating with the enemy, and surrendered if they could negotiate. If they can't get along, those Fujian soldiers will have to wantonly harm the people of Fucheng before they die.

"Father, here comes the child!" Zou Liangyi arched his hand.

Zou Weilian stared at the chessboard, put down one for a long time, and asked, "Are you a thief?" ”

"Yes," said Zou Liangyi, "the old and the young in the family were taken away by Mr. Zhao's troops, and when they left, my grandmother had already given all the land to her relatives, domestic slaves, and tenants. Father, our family has no land, and we can't divide the land in our name. ”

Zou Weilian finally raised his head, glared at his son and said, "Betraying the king and following the thief, is this a matter of dividing the land?" ”

Zou Liangyi said: "Father, the child has already understood Mr. Zhao's knowledge. The world is really a matter of dividing the fields. Nowadays, the gentry have annexed land, leaving the cultivators without their land, and it is difficult for the imperial court to collect taxes. The poor get poorer, the rich get richer, and the treasury is empty. If the poor can't live, they will fight for their lives, the treasury is empty and cannot be suppressed, and the Ming Dynasty will overturn sooner or later. ”

Liu Huan, the prefect of Ganzhou, said with a smile: "Brother Dehui, the tiger father has no dogs, it is rare for Ling Lang to have such knowledge." ”

Zou Weilian finally looked surprised and asked, "You learned all this statement from the thief?" ”

"Father, look at this book." Zou Liangyi handed over a copy of "Datong Collection".

Zou Weilian had heard of this book, and merchant ships from the north would be forced to buy a copy as long as they passed through Ji'an Province. But he didn't read it himself, and he didn't allow anyone else to read it, so he immediately destroyed the book when he searched it.

Today, Zou Weilian finally opened "Datong Collection" seriously, and he didn't know what to say after reading it.

Zou Liangyi said: "Please ask my father to surrender the city." ”

"You can't do it for your father," Zou Weilian said to his son, "You go out of the city and ask if you can let these Fujian soldiers go back to your hometown." They have been away from home for more than two years and do not want to stay in Jiangxi, but only want to return to their hometowns to reunite with their families. If they agreed, they would retreat thirty miles to the north, and the Fujian soldiers would abandon the city and leave. ”

Zou Liangyi said: "Those whose hands are not stained with the blood of the people can leave." ”

"How can a soldier not get bloody?" Zou Weilian said with a smile.

Zou Liangyi explained: "Fighting in battle, each for his own master, can not be demanding. To be tainted with the blood of the people is to say that there has been no plunder. ”

Zou Weilian sighed and said: "Then you go back and spread the word, just say that the 3,000 Fujian soldiers who defended the city have only plundered the people in western Fujian. After entering Jiangxi, I have been restrained by me. Some time ago, it had nothing to do with them to go out of the city to plunder, and all of these 3,000 people were left behind to defend the city. If you can't talk about it, you will have to destroy the city. ”

Zou Liangyi couldn't make the decision on this matter, and Fei Ruhe couldn't make the decision, so he could only send a boat back to ask Zhao Han for advice.

Taking advantage of this time, Fei Ruhe divided his troops to attack Nankang County.

It already belongs to the territory of Nan'an Prefecture, but it must be fought down to ensure the military security of Ganzhou Prefecture.

The adjutant general Zhou Dezhen led 3,000 soldiers to set off, and before he arrived at Nankang County, he heard that Nankang County was occupied by local Tian soldiers. The leader of the Tian soldiers took dozens of subordinates out of the city to greet him, knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Please make the decision for us!" ”

……

Ningdu County.

Thousands of tenants elected a tenant chief, organized into 3,000 Tian soldiers, and shouted in Hakka: "General Luling Zhao (Fei Ruhe) has defeated the officers and soldiers in Ganzhou, and now is a good time for us to start an incident." Come with me to the county seat! ”

……

Huichang County.

The remnants of the Tian soldiers who fled into the mountains, hundreds of people waved the banner of "walking for the sky".

After coming out of the mountains, countless tenants joined along the way, and by the time they reached the county seat, it had grown to thousands of people.

……

Yudu County.

Chen Ting, the general soldier of Fujian who retreated here, looked at the Tian soldiers outside the city with a frightened expression, and he hurriedly ordered: "Hurry up and shout, just say that I am a Fujianese, and Fujianese do not fight Fujianese." They want to occupy the county seat, I can let it out and leave a way for me to leave! ”

Yes, most of the tenants who rebelled in Southern Jiangxi were from Fujian.

……

Shicheng County.

Xingguo County.

Ruijin County.

Tian soldiers uprisings broke out one after another.

These news came one after another, Fei Ruhe was stupid, and he muttered to himself: "Could it be that I have broken through the great prestige, and only won a big victory in Ganzhou City, which led to a rebellion in seven counties at the same time?" ”

Of course not!

The real reason is that the tenants of Nangan are living too miserably, and they like to rebel in the first place. When the news of the great defeat of the officers and soldiers broke, they immediately went into action.

How bad is it?

During the period of the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zhou Zhifan, the general soldier of Tingzhou, and Liu Yili, the county governor of Ruijin, secretly supported the landlords of the tenants, and these officials couldn't stand it!

Moreover, the situation of the rebellion here was extremely complicated, involving the interests of the government, landlords, tenant owners, and tenant farmers.

Wei Jiaju, the chief secretary of Ningdu County, took a boat straight outside Ganzhou City and asked Fei Ruhe to send troops to take him to Ji'an Mansion.

After this person saw Zhao Han, he went straight to the point and said: "Mr. Zhao wants to get Nanjiang, you should know the truth here, don't think that the tenants are all hard-working. ”

Zhao Han smiled and asked, "Could it be that there are still rich people among the tenants?" ”

"There are indeed wealthy tenants," Wei Jiaju said, "the bandits in Southern Jiangxi have been repeatedly suppressed, and the small tenants are difficult to sustain, and it is not the responsibility of the landlords, and these tenants are even more hateful!" ”

Zhao Han said strangely: "How did Hao Tenant get proud? ”

Wei Jiaju said: "Take the distance from Ningdu County, the people of the county, six or seven out of ten are Fujianese. ”

"How can six or seven of the prefectures and counties in Jiangxi become Fujianese?" Zhao Han felt even more strange.

Wei Jiaju explained in detail: "At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there were many Fujianese who worked as tenants in Ningdu. During the Hongzhi, Zhengde, and Jiajing periods, Ningdu County has been plagued by bandits, and after the three dynasties suppressed bandits, the local people either died or fled, and one or two out of ten survived. Fujianese (mostly Hakka) call friends and take the opportunity to come over to cultivate the land. They were extremely united, and the landlords relied on them for farming, so that they were anti-client-oriented, and the tenants were able to suppress the landlords. ”

During the Hongwu period, the population of Ningdu County exceeded 150,000.

During the Wanli period, the population of Ningdu County was less than 20,000.

This is not a real figure, but a large number of local populations, hidden by landlords. Sixty or seventy percent of Fujianese are still registered in Fujian, and they have not settled in the local area at all.

The first few groups of Fujian tenants quickly became rich by farming because they joined forces to deal with the landlords.

What was the situation at that time?

The landlord paid heavy taxes to the government, and the tenants only paid rent to the landlord normally. The output of one acre of land and the income of tenants are three or four times that of landlords!

After two or three generations of farming, some tenants who made a fortune began to want to work and cultivate the land themselves.

As a result, they recruited more Fujian villagers, subleased the land, and became wealthy tenants and tenants who reaped their profits.

As a result, a three-level relationship is formed: landlord - tenant - tenant.

Even, after making money, many wealthy tenants returned to Fujian to buy houses and land, and at the same time worked as tenants in Jiangxi.

The low-level tenants in the Southern Jiangxi region were oppressed by both landlords and wealthy tenants!

In order to protect their own interests, the tenants often provoked contradictions between tenants and landlords. They let the landlords fight with the tenants, and they themselves reaped the profits, and many of the revolts of the field soldiers were also planned by the tenants.

Wei Jiaju said: "Mr. Zhao, I have read "Datong Collection". If the land is divided in the southern Jiangxi region, it is necessary not only to crack down on the landlords, but also to suppress those wealthy tenants. Moreover, the tenants and tenants are all Fujianese, and most of them are Hakka. Beware of the tenants inciting tenants, let alone against the government, they can fight for water with thousands of people! ”

This narrative opened Zhao Han's eyes and decided to send Chen Maosheng to preside over the work in person.

(It's gone today, but it's changed tomorrow.) ）